I'm just thinking it was the stress and weather. I wouldn't be laying either if I was a chicken until a week or two ago. We had another temperature plummet this weekend and I'm fully expecting eggs to slow again. Not that I'll complain, I already have way too many and only a fraction are laying...
No. It's not the ones people are getting up in arms about anyways. The week from hell was aptly named (-20 days, and several losses to the different flocks) and all the birds exposed to the light apart from a trio of hens were moved under the lights because they were in danger of succumbing to...
Well, when the week from hell (roughly the 10 days before christmas) came, I had birds exposed to 2 red bulbs for 24 hours a day and still got no eggs from them until about 2 weeks ago at most I think. They laid maybe 2 or 3 days earlier than the ones outside with no light